In a Monday email, White House staff informed The Post: “We are unable to accommodate your credential request to attend the Investing in Airline Accountability Remarks on 5/8. The remarks will be live-streamed and can be viewed at WH.gov. Thank you for understanding. We will let you know if a credential becomes available.”

The email does not claim that the exclusion is due to “space limitations” — an excuse that was used until recently to justify the press office’s mysterious prescreening of reporters let into large presidential events, which under past administrations were open to all journalists on White House grounds.

[That’s because there were no space issues. A significant number of seats were left empty, as the Daily Caller reported (see tweet below). It smells more like the White House doesn’t want to risk any tough questions of Biden … and that the rest of the White House Correspondents Association went along with it. — Ed]

White House Continues To Restrict Press Access To Biden Events, Leaves Empty Seats https://t.co/Gp27VMkyhR pic.twitter.com/r1mKgj0PzZ

— DailyCaller Politics (@TheDCPolitics) May 8, 2023